To be honest I think they were quite generous with the grade as I believe the coin should be graded AU58 due to the light wear on the hair.
The 8 escudos looks like a cast fake to me.
That depends on the ignot, some do and some don't. Some can be extremly valuable. And some will be worth silver weight alone.
Doug - I would agree with you that people who don't know how to grade cannot grade a coin in 6 seconds. But people who do know how to grade can...
Eddie - what's the most commonly asked question there is about any coin ? In one form or another, people ask what's it worth more than do...
I'd guess that over-grading is the most likely. They all (TPGs) make mistakes from time to time.
The one you are asking about is the on the right - correct ? To be honest it looks normal to me for a coin that has not toned much.
Terrible strike, looks like the obv die probably crumbled not long after, and a really strange looking obv surface to my eye. But I'll give the...
I'm doing OK. Thanks for asking ;)
Scott - That mark Twain piece you have is worth somewhere north of $1800. And depending on condition you could get more than that. Also, what...
I didn't magnify anything zach. I just took your image and cropped it to sow only the affected area. And added the arrows of course.
Eddie - if you took a raw coin and gave it your own grade, say MS66 and then offered it for sale at MS66 money, how many people do you think there...
I think that part of it is a die crack and part of it IS a scratch. The red arrows point to the die crack, with the top red arrow being the very...
Yes your scenarios are possible - but for how many times ? And just how many high MS grade coins do you think even exist ? Do you have any idea of...
lopez - most of what you have there are British coins. You can identify them and see approx values by using this link -...
Finding coins of different dates but of the same series with similar die cracks is not unusual. Think about it for a second, if you repeatedly...
Sorry, but there's really no way to estimate grade based on your pics.
For whatever reason people who do not know the history of coin grading seem to assume that market grading was invented by the TPGs. It wasn't. It...
Why do you think regular turn around time increases and decreases ? The more people there are who pay for speeded up service increases the regular...
Very, very bad idea ! Never touch the the surface of a coin with anything. You will only do far more damage to the coin.
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